The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-10
STATE GLEANINGS.
Aberdeen has a new bank.

Corinth was visited last week by
burglars.
CorinLh is excited over the dis
cOvery of iron.
Duck Hill now claims a Silver
mine, also coal.
Kinds county raised over l 900 tons
Of hay last year.
Canton claims the largest opera
house in the State.
Durant also comes TO the front
with an iron discovery.
A negro blacksmith at Shubuta
has discovered a coal mine.
The Lexington Advertiser has
entered upon its 50th year.
Judge Peyton is Lodge Deputy OF
the HazIchurst Good Templars.
James Richardson, and old citi-
zen of Yazoo City, died last week.
The President approved the bill
locating a Federal Court at Vlcks-
burg.
The excitement over iron discov-
cries at Enterprise is on the in
crease.
Oxford university has student
from Toxic, Japan, so says the
Falcon.
An attempt was made to wreck a
train between Clinton and Bolton
on the 3rd.
Copiah has five candidates an
nounced for Sheriff, and four for
Circuit Clerk.
The Furnace is the name of new
paper started at Duck Hill by Mr..
j. e. Roseborough. !
The residence of Col. w. A.
Percy at GreenviIle, Miss, was de-
stroyed by fire recently.
Mr.. VIM. Miller, an old resident
of Copiah county, died at his home
near Gallman last week.
Judge J. NJ. Ellis, formerly of
Fayette, Miss, died at Parsons,
Kan, short time ago.
There is no rest for the labor
agent in the hill counties. He is
kept moving right along.
Farrar Morrison, Ex-Sheriff of
Kinds county, died at his home in
Raymond on the End inst.
Mrs. Susan Harrison. an aged
lady of Copiah county, died last
week at her home, near Gallman.
Leake county by vote OF 1878
to 627 has taken $4,000 stock in
the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad.
Mr. L. Schartz of Beaumont, Tex
as, and Miss Rennie Levy, Of Sum
NIT, were formally betrothed on the
24th ult.
Ex-President Davis and his
daughter Miss Winnie, will accom-
pany the Vicksburg Southrons to
the Washington drill.
Mr.. George Ward, an aged occu,
pant of the Pontotoc Poorhnuse, has
inherited 100000 in money and
$4,000 in real estate, about $40,
900 in all.
Two negroes were lynched in
Lefore county on the LIST. They
had burned two gins, a cotton house
and several bales Of cotton belong
ing to Capt. Ii. b. Prince.
Alex Crawford, who murdered
Vic Loggins in Montgomery county
last week was captured and carried
to the Winona Jail, and on last
Monday taken out and lynched.
Mr.. Elias Simon, of Hazlehurst,
Miss, and Mrs. Adele Benjamin,
formerly proprietress of the Ben
jamin House, also OF Hazlehurst,
were married at Osyka on the 9th
inst.
Capt. j. G. Johnston, Deputy
Auditor, has resigned, and will
remove to Memphis to enter q lar
ger field of usefulness, for which his
ability fits him. He will be sue
ceeded by Col. w. ID. Halder.
II. b, Tillottson was shot and
killed at Hays Station, Jefferson
county, last week by W. A. Killings
worth. Family affairs was the
cause of the trouble. The coroncr's
jury rendered verdict of justitiable
homicide.
II. B. Mcclure, the labor agent
from FayeLte, who has figured so
prominently Of late in the papers,
will not under any circumstances he
permitted to return to the county
in which he has wrought so much
mischief.
The Mexican War Veterans are
requested to meet in jackson, Tues
day, March Is, at the Chancery
Clerks office for the purpose OF
advising together with reference to
those who may be entitled to the
benefits of the pension act lately
passed by Congress.
I The three last saloons in Jackson
closed Saturday night. This leaves
but three saloons in the county, to